Quotes About Economy

Technological innovations had shifted the basis of England's economy from agriculture to industry between 1750 and 1850. The development of steam power and a boom

For years I thought what was good for our country was good for General Motors, and vice versa. The difference did not exist.

What is good for the country is good for General Motors and vice versa.

Ultimately, what economics attempts to measure, underneath money, is the totality of all that human beings make and do for each other.

because for years I thought what was good for the country was good for General Motors and vice versa.

NOT "What's good for General Motors is good for the country.

Wal-Mart benefits from the impression that globalization is some kind of unmanageable economic weather system out of the control of everyone, affecting all players with indifference, benefiting those who happened to be properly prepared.

Wal-mart has done such a superb job of austerity, from start to finish, that austerity is all that's left.

Sometimes cheap is inexpensive. Sometimes it's cheap.

The banks cannot hold back or withdraw from the dilemma in which their mode of doing business has placed them. They must carry the load to save their margins.

Societies that don't embrace freedom wind up with the least prosperity. Venezuela is a country rich in natural resources, yet after just fourteen years under a socialist government, it now rations food, electricity, water, and other staples.

The point is that progress—whether in business, an economy, or science—comes through experimentation and failure

Economy is half the battle of life. It is not so hard to earn money as to spend it well.

Good food ain't cheap, and cheap food ain't good.

It is not economical to go to bed early to save candles if the result is twins.

On 16 September 1985, when the Commerce Department announced that the United States had become a debtor nation, the American Empire died.

We'll have a public power authority, which will also have the ability to build power or finance power. And more importantly, we'll have more power than our economy provides. All of that will give us leverage we don't have today.

But what if a large part of your business consists of selling things that put people out of work. Including many of the people who actually pay for the things you're trying to sell.

Every dollar has a story to tell," Vonn Carp in Dollarapalooza.

The key is simply to uncover value in waste.

Customs inspectors could not stop the export of software through telephone lines; labour inspectors could not stop software engineers from talking to customers in America at night; excise inspectors could not harass the IT firms because the government did not levy tax on services. Much like Gurgaon, India's knowledge economy literally grew at night when the government slept.

We grew up in the smug belief that although the mixed economy was inefficient, it was better than capitalism because it preserved democratic freedoms.

The reigning economic system is a vicious circle of isolation. Its technologies are based on isolation, and they contribute to that same isolation. From automobiles to television, the goods that the spectacular system chooses to produce also serve it as weapons for constantly reinforcing the conditions that engender "lonely crowds.

The society whose modernisation has reached the stage of integrated spectacle is characterised by the combined effect of five principal factors: incessant technological renewal, integration of state and economy, generalised secrecy, unanswerable lies, and eternal present . . . — The Society of the Spectacle